{"id":5300,"date":"2019-01-04T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:54:14","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/01\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-184","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 184"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. The Moral Hor\u00adror of America\u2019s Pris\u00adons<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg): \u201c\u2026if you think America\u2019s cur\u00adrent penal sys\u00adtem is the very best we can do, that is about the most pes\u00adsimistic ver\u00addict on this coun\u00adtry I have ever heard. Has any\u00adone ever sug\u00adgest\u00aded that the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan prison sys\u00adtem is the world\u2019s best? The can-do atti\u00adtude is one of my favorite fea\u00adtures of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan life. We just need to apply it a lit\u00adtle more broad\u00adly.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The Num\u00adber 1 Rea\u00adson For The Decline In Church Atten\u00addance\u2026<\/a> (Thom Ranier, Facts & Trends): \u201cStat\u00aded sim\u00adply, the num\u00adber one rea\u00adson for the decline in church atten\u00addance is that mem\u00adbers attend with less fre\u00adquen\u00adcy than they did just a few years ago. Allow me to explain. If the fre\u00adquen\u00adcy of atten\u00addance changes, then atten\u00addance will respond accord\u00ading\u00adly. For exam\u00adple, if 200 mem\u00adbers attend every week the aver\u00adage atten\u00addance is, obvi\u00adous\u00adly, 200. But if one-half of those mem\u00adbers miss only one out of four weeks, the atten\u00addance drops to 175. Did you catch that? No mem\u00adbers left the church. Every\u00adone is still rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly active in the church. But atten\u00addance declined over 12 per\u00adcent because half the mem\u00adbers changed their atten\u00addance behav\u00adior slight\u00adly.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Archaeology\u2019s Top 10 Dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies of 2018<\/a> (Gor\u00addon Govi\u00ader, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThese dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies, rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly insignif\u00adi\u00adcant indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, join with many oth\u00ader dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies over the decades to give us a great deal of con\u00adfi\u00addence in the his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal details con\u00adtained in the Bible.\u201d Note: these are pre\u00adcise\u00adly the sort of mun\u00addane, ongo\u00ading dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies we would expect from a book describ\u00ading real peo\u00adple doing real things in real places. I encour\u00adage you to con\u00adtrast it with the texts of oth\u00ader reli\u00adgions.<\/li>\n
  4. Facts Are Not Self-Inter\u00adpret\u00ading<\/a> (Twit\u00adter) \u2014 this is a short, sound\u00adless video. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li>\n
  5. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Mega-donors Are Rethink\u00ading Mon\u00adey in Pol\u00adi\u00adtics<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201c\u2018What Chris\u00adt\u00adian phil\u00adan\u00adthropists see now, maybe more than in past gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions, is the full land\u00adscape of how they can deploy their [mon\u00adey] toward the entire\u00adty of what God cares about,\u2019 said Josh Kwan, who was recent\u00adly appoint\u00aded the head of the Gathering\u2014the organization\u2019s first new leader in its three-decade run.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Two Roads for the New French Right<\/a> (Mark Lil\u00adla, New York Review of Books): \u201cCon\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtal con\u00adser\u00advatism going back to the nine\u00adteenth cen\u00adtu\u00adry has always rest\u00aded on an organ\u00adic con\u00adcep\u00adtion of soci\u00adety. It sees Europe as a sin\u00adgle Chris\u00adt\u00adian civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion com\u00adposed of dif\u00adfer\u00adent nations with dis\u00adtinct lan\u00adguages and cus\u00adtoms. These nations are com\u00adposed of fam\u00adi\u00adlies, which are organ\u00adisms, too, with dif\u00adfer\u00ading but com\u00adple\u00admen\u00adtary roles and duties for moth\u00aders, fathers, and chil\u00addren. On this view, the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal task of soci\u00adety is to trans\u00admit knowl\u00adedge, moral\u00adi\u00adty, and cul\u00adture to future gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions, per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading the life of the civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion\u00adal organ\u00adism. It is not to serve an agglom\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of autonomous indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals bear\u00ading rights.\u201d\n